retrospective

Selected Image Date Publication Author(s) Citation title Comments
October 1951 Physics Today The American Physical Society
July 1, 1955 Reviews of Modern Physics Herbert L. Anderson Meson Experiments with Enrico Fermi
February 1966 Physics Today History was made at Columbia
May 1968 Physics Today D. Allan Bromley Twenty years of physics: The nucleus
 
July 25, 1992 Current Science R. E. Marshak The Pain and Joy of a Major Scientific Discovery

Extensive excerpts are published because of their relevance to Rustad-Ruby experiment. Marshak reports that Wu remains strongly supportive of RR three months after her parity experiment.

1999 NIST Special Publication 925 Elio Passaglia with Karma A. Beal A Unique Institution: The National Bureau of Standards 1950-1969

Retrospective of the Parity Violation experiment from the NBS perspective.

July 2000 Electronic Journal of Differential Equations Joseph Sucher Columbia physics in the fifties: Untold tales

The life of a Columbia physics grad student in the 50s


2001 NIST Special Publication 958: A Century of Excellence 1901-2000 Ralph P. Hudson Reversal of the Parity Conservation Law in Nuclear Physics
 
March 1, 2001 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Leon Lidofsky CHIEN-SHIUNG WU 29 May 1912-16 February 1997

Lidofsky's appreciation of Wu's career does not address the Rustad-Ruby affair, but is nonetheless illuminating.

May 23, 2003 American Institute of Physics Oral History Archive Interviewed by: John Rigden AIP Oral History: Robert Pound—Session II
2006 Physics in Perspective Catherine Westfall A Different Laboratory Tale: Fifty Years of Mössbauer Spectroscopy
2013 Oral History Project Interviewed by Sara Lippincott Oral History: Murray Gell-Mann (b. 1929)

Gell-Mann discusses the role that challenges to the RR experiment played in the priority dispute over first publication of the universal V–A theory.

2013 Oral History Project Interviewed by Sara Lippincott Oral History: Murray Gell-Mann (b. 1929)

Gell-Mann discusses the role that challenges to the RR experiment played in the priority dispute over first publication of the universal V–A theory.